{"title":"Three-Dimensional Polymer Micelles Formed by Crystallization-Driven Self-Assembly","authors":"Jingjie Jiang, Mitchell A. Winnik","doi":"10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00145","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Polymer self-assembly plays a crucial role across various fields, such as biomedicine, catalysis, and optoelectronics. Over the years, self-assembly in solution has attracted significant interest. In 2007, our group, in collaboration with Prof. Ian Manners, published a groundbreaking article in <i>Science</i> on living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) of amphiphilic block copolymers featuring a crystalline core-forming block. This study focused on polyferrocenylsilane block copolymers (PFS BCPs). Living CDSA operates similarly to living polymerization, enabling the precise fabrication of micelles with predictable shapes and dimensions. The crystalline nature of the core-forming block promotes the formation of structures with low interfacial curvature, such as cylinders and platelets, which are rarely formed in traditional self-assembly techniques based on microphase separation.","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.accounts.5c00145","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Polymer self-assembly plays a crucial role across various fields, such as biomedicine, catalysis, and optoelectronics. Over the years, self-assembly in solution has attracted significant interest. In 2007, our group, in collaboration with Prof. Ian Manners, published a groundbreaking article in Science on living crystallization-driven self-assembly (CDSA) of amphiphilic block copolymers featuring a crystalline core-forming block. This study focused on polyferrocenylsilane block copolymers (PFS BCPs). Living CDSA operates similarly to living polymerization, enabling the precise fabrication of micelles with predictable shapes and dimensions. The crystalline nature of the core-forming block promotes the formation of structures with low interfacial curvature, such as cylinders and platelets, which are rarely formed in traditional self-assembly techniques based on microphase separation.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.